Constituting Americans : Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

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Ever since the founders drafted ""We the People, "" ""we"" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wald, Priscilla
Other Authors: Pease, Donald E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: North Carolina : Duke University Press, 1995.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political culture.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Political aspects.
Group identity in literature.
Group identity.
Anxiety in literature.
American literature.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Narration > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Identite collective > États-Unis > Histoire.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Political culture > United States > History.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Political aspects > United States.
Group identity > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Neither Citizen Nor Alien: National Narratives, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Self-Definition; 2 "As From a Faithful Mirror": Pierre, Our Nig, and Literary Nationalism; 3 "The Strange Meaning of Being Black": The Souls of Black Folk and the Narrative of History; 4 A "Losing-Self Sense": The Making of Americans and the Anxiety of Identity; Coda: An American "We"; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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